In a ‘Head to Head’ CGA Peach 2020 Conference session with Peter Martin, veteran entrepreneur Sir Charles Dunstone shared his views on Five Guys’ stellar success in the UK and some hot issues
Great restaurant design is more important than ever—and as Tim Mutton of the Blacksheep agency told CGA Peach’s 2020 Conference, it delivers much more than just pretty looks
With the pace of many operators’ roll-outs showing no signs of flagging, there is new openings news this week from brands including The Diner, Leon, Inamo, Fuller’s, the Cocktail Trading Company, Loungers, Marston’s, New World Trading Company, All Bar One and CAU.
Spending by contactless methods in pubs has nearly doubled since the limit was increased from £20 to £30 in September, Barclaycard has reported.
BrandTrack, CGA Peach’s regular survey of out-of-home eating and drinking consumer behaviour, has a key focus on brands, but also gives a vital reading on the key dynamics in the market—and asks some big questions about market evolution. David Martin does the analysis.
The only constant is change, so they say. For anyone in the eating and drinking-out arena that is simply stating the blindingly obvious, writes Peter Martin.
As the year draws to a close, brands with openings either in the last few weeks of December or into the new year include Turtle Bay, Loungers, Bella Italia, Honest Burgers, Prezzo, Walkabout, Tonkotsu, YO! Sushi, Itsu and many more.
The latest issue of Peach Report magazine is out now with full and exclusive coverage of the CGA Peach 2020 conference and the 2015 Hero & Icon Awards. It was certainly a year for the ‘disruptors’.
Food inflation will stay around zero in 2016 following a second successive year of deflation in 2015, the annual report
Nearly two in three British towns have seen their numbers of pubs, bars, restaurants and clubs rise or stay the same in the last year, the latest edition of the licensed trade’s Market Growth Monitor from AlixPartners and CGA Peach reveals.
The UK now has more than 20,000 coffeeshops with sales growing by 10% over the last year, new figures show.
London’s pub and restaurant trade saw sales dip in November in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. Public nervousness about going out led to a 1.5% decline in like-for-like sales in the capital, with chain restaurants feeling the biggest impact, according to latest figures from the industry’s sales barometer, the Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
Brands with opening news for the final few days before Christmas and beyond into 2016 include Levi Roots, GBK, Nando’s,
A change of tack on the campaign to cut VAT in the eating and drinking out sector has been signalled by JD Wetherspoon’s decision to pull out of the group coordinated by Jacques Borel.
With operators here contemplating the impact of the National Living Wage next year, a new survey in the US by AlixPartners has found that consumers approve of better wages, with many prepared to pay extra to support them.
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